Paidea!

According to Zakaria, what started to change in Ancient Greece?

• 1. education became interdisciplinary

• 1. education that was vocational shifted to reaching excellence or virtue

• Physical Training became a crucial part of the curriculum

What is arête?

• 1. "Rank, nobility, moral virtue, excellence

• 1. “rearing of a child, education"

• “athletic training, exercise”

What does Ilyenkov want teachers to do?

• 1. train student’s critical thinking

• 1. train student’s empathy and compassion

• 1. to teach students to think at the level of contemporary logic

• 1. to teach student produce abstract knowledge

Who was one of the first people to use the term artes liberales?

• Plato

• 2. Aristotel

• 1. Dewey

• 1. Cicero

Education is an arena of struggles, practical and theoretical. Who said it? 

• 1. Nastia Volobueva

• 1. Rousseau

• Dewey

• Ilyenkov

Choose what is incorrect

• 1. the trivium—grammar, logic, and rhetoric

• 1. the quadrivium—arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy

• 1. the trivium—grammar, math, and rhetoric

• the fiverivium—arithmetic, geometry, music, literature and grammar

Where was the first European university founded?

• Rome

• 1. Bologna

• Palerno

• 1. Amsterdam

Why did Dewey write his article Experience and Education? What was his intention or goal?

• 1. Dewey wanted to highlight the importance of developing a new philosophy of education. On top of that, he wanted to raise the question of what must be worthy of the name education

• 1. Dewey wanted to convince readers that traditional education is outdated. His goal was to develop a philosophical basis for progressive educators to explain themselves

• 1. Dewey did not like what other educators write and say about the nature of education. That is why he paid attention to student’ experience to show that none of the contemporary thinkers gets the real essence of the goal of education.

What country do we associate with the emergence of a Research University? And who?

• Italy, Elliot

• 1. Germany, Humboldt

• 1. USA, Elliot

• 1. USA, Humboldt

How old is the idea of the elective system?

• 1. more than 100 years, less than 200

• 1. more than 500

• 1. as old as Plato

• 1. around 90 years